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[edit]uncowl (third-person singular simple present uncowls, present participle uncowling, simple past and past participle uncowled)
- (transitive) To divest or deprive of a cowl (monk's hood or hooded robe).
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Men bearded, bald, cowl’d, uncowl’d, shod, unshod,
- 1849, L. Mariotti, chapter 11, in Italy, Past and Present[1], volume 2, London: Chapman, pages 389–399:
- Can the pope, to say nothing of himself and his cardinals, do away with his four archbishops and ninety-eight bishops? Will he reduce the prodigious number of his priests, who muster as strong as one twenty-eighth of the population? Will he uncowl his monks, two thousand and twenty-three of whom swarm about the streets of Rome alone?
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- (transitive, figurative, archaic) To uncover; to unveil.
- 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Osorio, London: John Pearson, 1873, Act I, p. 24,[2]
- I pray you, think us friends—uncowl your face,
- For you seem faint, and the night-breeze blows healing.
- 1850, John Savage, “Love in the Golden Vale”, in Lays of the Fatherland[3], New York: J.S. Redfield, page 91:
- While we uncowl our souls,
Bare to the God who rolls
Earth on its icy poles,
Clasp me in pray’r.
- 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Osorio, London: John Pearson, 1873, Act I, p. 24,[2]
- (instransitive) To remove or pull back one's cowl.
- 1905, Charles Whistler, chapter 16, in A King’s Comrade[5]:
- And thence, after a word or two had passed, came the priest I had seen; and when he uncowled I knew him for my friend Selred, and glad I was to see him.
- 1972, John Barth, “Perseid”, in Chimera[6], New York: Fawcett Crest, page 103:
- She wouldn’t uncowl, for modesty she said, but let me ground her and lift dun shift to white shoulders.
- (transitive) To remove the cowl (protective covering) from (an engine).
- 1980, George C. Larson, chapter 3, in Fly on Instruments[7], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 29:
- […] uncowling the airplane before each flight is neither practical nor expected. In fact, uncowling such an airplane repeatedly may wear the latching or fastening devices.
- 1994, Geza Szurovy, Mike Goulian, chapter 20, in Basic Aerobatics[8], Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books, page 217:
- Uncowl the engine, check for evidence of any leaks.